Rabelais and His World, Volume 10This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation. |
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Page 175
... living body and dead disintegrating matter that is being transformed into earth , into manure . The living body returns to the earth its excre- ment , which fertilizes the earth as does the body of the dead . Rab- elais was able to ...
... living body and dead disintegrating matter that is being transformed into earth , into manure . The living body returns to the earth its excre- ment , which fertilizes the earth as does the body of the dead . Rab- elais was able to ...
Page 282
... living in the creative life of the people . The images continued to developed , to be renewed and filled with a richer meaning . They grew and were regenerated together with the people who created them . Therefore , in contradiction to ...
... living in the creative life of the people . The images continued to developed , to be renewed and filled with a richer meaning . They grew and were regenerated together with the people who created them . Therefore , in contradiction to ...
Page 438
... living actuality . These images are far remote from ab- stract symbolism and schematism . We may say that in Rabelais ' novel the cosmic breadth of myth is combined with the directness of a modern survey and the concrete precision of a ...
... living actuality . These images are far remote from ab- stract symbolism and schematism . We may say that in Rabelais ' novel the cosmic breadth of myth is combined with the directness of a modern survey and the concrete precision of a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
Copyright | |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect Bakhtin banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character church comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor ideological imagery important interpretation king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words